Pollimyrus Taverne, 1971

Kramer, Bernd, Bank, Herman van der & Wink, Michael, 2013, Marked differentiation in a new species of dwarf stonebasher, Pollimyrus cuandoensis sp. nov. (Mormyridae: Teleostei), from a contact zone with two sibling species of the Okavango and Zambezi rivers, Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) 48 (7 - 8), pp. 429-463 : 444-445

Pollimyrus Taverne, 1971

Diagnosis (translated from Taverne 1971, p. 108)

Fairly short to elongate body; snout shorter than the postorbital portion of the skull, with a high upper jaw (“une mâchoire supérieure haute”) that is curved backwards and slightly longer rostrally than lower jaw, mouth terminal, inferior or subinferior; caudal peduncle two to five times longer than deep; 15 to 36 dorsal fin rays; 21 to 31 anal fin rays; 9 to 12 pectoral fin rays; 35 to 70 lateral line scales; 7 to 21 / 8 to 23 scales in a transverse line of the body; 8 to 17 / 6 to 20 scales in a transverse line between the dorsal and the anal fins; 12 to 20 scales around the caudal peduncle; 5 to 9 / 6 to 10 bicuspid teeth; lateral ethmoid present but reduced; mesethmoid rather large and curved backwards; six circumorbital bones; anterior orbital and first infraorbital not fused; four hypural bones; 39 to 45 vertebrae.

Type species: Pollimyrus isidori (Valenciennes, 1846) .

Included species. Valid unless stated otherwise.

adspersus , Mormyrus Günther, 1866 . Current status: valid as Pollimyrus adspersus

(Günther, 1866). brevis , Marcusenius Boulenger, 1913 . Current status: valid as Pollimyrus brevis

(Boulenger, 1913). castelnaui , Marcusenius Boulenger, 1911 . Current status: valid as Pollimyrus castelnaui

( Boulenger, 1911). cuandoensis sp. nov., Pollimyrus Kramer, van der Bank and Wink, 2013 . guttatus , Petrocephalus Fowler, 1936 . Current status: valid as Pollimyrus guttatus

(Fowler, 1936). isidori , Mormyrus Valenciennes, 1847 . Current status: valid as Pollimyrus isidori

(Valenciennes, 1847). maculipinnis , Marcusenius Nichols and La Monte, 1934 . Current status: valid as

Pollimyrus maculipinnis (Nichols & La Monte, 1934) . marianne , Pollimyrus Kramer, van der Bank, Flint, Sauer-Gürth and Wink, 2003 . nigricans , Marcusenius Boulenger, 1906 . Current status: valid as Pollimyrus nigricans

(Boulenger, 1906). nigripinnis, Marcusenius Boulenger, 1899 . Current status: valid as Pollimyrus nigripin-

nis (Boulenger, 1899). pedunculatus, Marcusenius David and Poll, 1937 . Current status: valid as Pollimyrus

pedunculatus (David and Poll, 1937). petherici , Marcusenius Boulenger,1899 . Current status: valid as Pollimyrus petherici

(Boulenger, 1898). petricolus , Marcusenius Daget, 1954 . Current status: valid as Pollimyrus petricolus

(Daget, 1954).

plagiostoma , Marcusenius Boulenger, 1889 . Current status: valid as Pollimyrus plagiostoma (Boulenger, 1898) .

pulverulentus , Marcusenius Boulenger, 1899 . Current status: valid as Pollimyrus pulverulentus (Boulenger, 1899) .

schreyeni, Pollimyrus Poll, 1972 .

stappersi , Marcusenius Boulenger, 1915 . Current status: valid as Pollimyrus stappersi (Boulenger, 1915) .

tumifrons , Marcusenius Boulenger, 1902 . Current status: valid as Pollimyrus tumifrons (Boulenger, 1902) .